Every once in a while, especially when I hear of votes on cost of living increases, politicians pay raises, etc. I drop a line to my Congressman and Senator, asking why we vets only get 2 or so percent increase year over year,when clearly our buying power drops everytime the gas or heating fuel rises, which appears to be weekly. If every vet on COMP. sent ongoing notes to their reps maybe, just maybe the government might decide to bring us back to a living wage. For those of us are 100% with unemployability we can't get a part time job to help defer these major increases. With numbers maybe they will listen more.